China Myths, China Facts
2 Introduction

Most of us primarily from our perceptions of others through media, entertainment and other kind of popular culture. The problem of learning about other people that are different from us through popular culture is, many of the representations are based on cultural stereotypes and prejudice. Thus, when we interact with people with different cultures or backgrounds from our own, we tend to have preconceived idea about those people. Whether those assumptions are to be rue or myth, they form the way we look at the world and precondition how we perceive others.
Based on the case study entitled China Myths, China Facts (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013), I will analyze three myths for correctness regarding …show more content…
In a collectivism society, the individual’s life does not belong to him, instead, “it belongs to the group or society he belongs and must sacrifice his all belongings for the groups or society “greater good” (Biddle, 2012).
Mr. Wei Chen explains as a child how he was punished for stepping outside the box and was supposed to conform to collective group cultural norms instead of individualism (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013).
Wei Chen further explains that the chinse people left this mentality with passion and the Chinese workers now are eager for personal development. He continues to say that the eagerness and passion that the chines people exhibit to move ahead is perceived as pushy and aggressive by westerners. Another observant a Canadian pharmaceutical company executive points out the extent individualism in Chana, and according to the executive observation it exceeds the interest company, community or nations even more than the US which generally considered to be the most individualistic country in the world and further explains that this could be the result of the one-child policy, and mass migration to big …show more content…
(Biddle, 2012).
The truth of the myth is the chinse people most of the time encourage forming groups, and they are good at working in teams.

The second Myth “Myth 2: Long-term deliberation, Reality: Real-time reaction” (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013), views the Chinese society as taking an extended period in making decisions However, different surveys indicate that the Chinese managers speed of decision making process is faster and is increasing enormously as compared to the western managers decision making process (Meyer & Yi Shen, 2010).

The decision-making process is ad-hoc even by the Chinese managers, but it has been built on Long term policies and business decisions that impact the organization in the future. Frederic Maury an executive in technical serviced from France stated that the chinse do not think about the future and ad hoc logistics are quite common but to his surprise they are well executed. However, both Chinese’s government formulates policies and create business for a long